Why is the defeat of Napoleon’s troops by African revolutionaries in Haiti not celebrated enough?

It remains the world’s ONLY successful major slave rebellion. Making it all the more famous an event. Even Spartacus failed nearly 1900 years earlier, and he is still far more famous for it for some reason.

Général François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture should be famous. He was a great man. If he was a hero somewhere other than Haiti, he might be even more famous. As it stands, you have to be a pretty big history nerd to know of him and his deeds at all…..:

Addendum: BUT, if you dig deep into the conflict, it is filled with atrocities and barbarity on ALL sides, with genocide, torture and massacres perpetrated by and against the blacks, mulattoes and whites who fought variously against one another from the beginning to the end. It is one reason why not celebrating it is the appropriate choice. The second reason to not celebrate it is what the Haitians have done with their freedom in the 200+ years since freedom. Bad choice after bad choice in how it dealt with the Western world, how it elected its various dictators who were no better than their whites masters pre-revolution etc. One wonders if blacks are really able to create functioning western-style countries with multi-ethnic backgrounds based on the evidence at hand for black rule in the 20th and 21st century thus far. Its seems the tribal unit is about as big as they can get without massive corruption and nepotism ect. takes place. Competent nation-level rule appears beyond them in many ways using the many various examples of incompetent rule in Africa and elsewhere that blacks rule themselves by majority.